Environmental Manifestation reports from the Paranormal Database

Cottage with Pond

Location: Newport (Isle of Wight) - Sandy LaneType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: Circa 1951 / 1952Further Comments: A lad cycling down Sandy Lane recalled seeing a picturesque farm house with a pond just in front of it. Years later the (now grown) man tried to find the dwelling, but could find no evidence the property or pond ever existed.

Fordson Tractor

Location: Normanton (Yorkshire) - RAF Bottesford (aka RAF Normanton) - no longer operationalType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 04 October 2009Further Comments: A visitor to the site heard what he first thought was an old Fordson tractor ticking over, though the sound later changed to an aircraft carrying out pre flight checks.

Crowned Man

Location: Otley (Yorkshire) - Old Chevin RoadType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 2005, around 23:00hFurther Comments: A witness walking towards a camp site encountered a man wearing a crown on his head dancing around strangely, like a 'village idiot'. The man stopped in front of the witness and stared hard into his eyes. The witness tried to push the man away, but his hands passed straight through the figure. As the witness moved away, he turned and saw many people in Victorian clothing pushing prams. The witness was said to be shaken up for days after the experience.

Cricket Pavilion

Location: Outer London: East Barnet (Greater London) - Oakhill ParkType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: An evening in winter, 1986/87Further Comments: Walking his dog through the park, this witness spotted what looked like a cricket pavilion with a veranda about 100 yards from him. The building was quite brightly lit, illuminated from the outside. The witness was a little surprised never to have seen the building before, but being new to the area was not perturbed. Walking back the same way a little later, the building had gone. Neighbours told him that they could not recall a pavilion ever being on the site.

Battlefield

Location: Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross) - Pass of KilliecrankieType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 27 July (reoccurring)Further Comments: The bloody battleground between English Government and Jacobite Highlanders, the anniversary of the battle is marked by the ground turning blood red. Reports of soldiers in English and Scottish regalia, both lying dead and others fighting, have also been recorded. As if this was not enough, the area is also haunted by the drifting head of a woman murdered on the site during the seventeenth century, and the tall white spectre who tries to grab people passing along the roads; anyone the ghost touches dies within the year...

Dying Highwayman

Location: Pluckley (Kent) - Fright (aka Frith) CornerType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: A large spectral tree has been seen here, together with a highwayman pinned to it by several swords. On other occasions, an elderly phantom woman is spotted; thought to be a gypsy woman, she accidentally set herself on fire with her pipe while sleeping.

Lamps

Location: Poole (Dorset) - United Reformed Church, Skinner StreetType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: It has been said that sometimes one can see box pews and brass lamps within the church, even though the items were removed in the nineteenth century.

Overlord

Location: Portland (Dorset) - Unstated public gardensType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: May 1976Further Comments: While walking his dog early one quiet May morning, Mr Murphy suddenly found himself surrounded by tanks, jeeps and American soldiers walking around. Then, as suddenly as they had appeared, the scene vanished, leaving both Murphy and his dog shaking. The witness speculated that he had witnessed a brief moment when soldiers were making final preparations for the D Day landings.

Old Brazils

Location: Ramoan (County Antrim) - Off coastType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: Eighteenth centuryFurther Comments: An strange island, likely to be a Fata Morgana, was said to periodically appear off the coast. The island was covered in trees, ruins and tall towers, and would always disappear at sunset. It is not clear whether this phantom land was 'Old Brazils', an island which appeared once per year along the Antrim coastline.

Double Fronted Georgian House in Mist

Location: Rougham (Suffolk) - Kingshall Street?Type: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: 'In the days before automobiles' a house with a beautiful garden appeared along Kingshall Street. A witness had never seen the building before, so went to investigate, only to see the house engulfed by mist and disappearing to leave an empty field.

Coffee Shop

Location: Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent) - Calverley RoadType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 18 June 1968Further Comments: A woman in a supermarket spotted an old fashioned coffee shop frequented by several smartly dressed people, through a doorway in the shop. A little while later she returned to the site with her husband, but was unable to find the coffee shop. After a little research, they discovered a bar had existed on the site many years previous.

Monks and Priests

Location: Scattery Island (Inis Cathaig) (County Clare) - Church of St. Mary near the Round TowerType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: Nineteenth centuryFurther Comments: A fisherman caught in a storm sought shelter on the island and went to pray at a ruined church. He encountered a large number of monks and priests within the building, although when he closed his eyes and opened them, the figures had vanished and the church once more appeared ruined..

Spencer

Location: Scrooby (Nottinghamshire) - Great North RoadType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1952Further Comments: A man walking home witnessed a figure entering a small cottage. A few seconds, a couple of screams followed, and two figures ran from the cottage, one with a head injury. The witness panicked, convinced he had watched a robbery and ran off. Lost in the dark, he ran in a circle, returning to the scene of the crime, only there was no cottage... It is speculated he witnessed the murder of a gatekeeper and his wife, killed by John Spencer in 1779. The ghost of Spencer, or maybe the gatekeeper, has also been seen standing on the roadside.

Chip Shop

Location: Sheffield (Yorkshire) - Firth ParkType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1990Further Comments: Walking home one evening, a mother and daughter spotted a chip shop which they had thought was new, as they had not seen it before. The shop was open, lights were on, and people were inside. A couple of nights later, they decided to visit the takeaway, but it was not there - a DIY shop stood on the spot, twice the size of the chip shop they had seen.

Hooves on Gravel

Location: Shoeburyness (Essex) - Countryside in areaType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1950sFurther Comments: While walking home through the nearby countryside, a woman reported hearing the sounds of overworked horses and the sound of gravel. The site of the occurrence, upon investigation, proved once to be a brick yard.

Army Marching On

Location: Souter Fell (Cumbria) - Side of Mountain visible from Wilton HallType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 23 June 1744 (reoccurring?)Further Comments: Over two dozen witnesses saw a mass of troops ascending the mountain on horseback, though there were no real soldiers in the area. The ghostly army had been seen twice before, always on the same date.

Altered Interior

Location: Stanningfield (Suffolk) - St Nicholas ChurchType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1933Further Comments: A passing gentleman noticed the church doors open and went in to investigate - he said he found the altar adorned with flowers and set up for a Roman Catholic service, even though it was an Anglican church.

Army on Manoeuvres

Location: Stockton on the Forest (Yorkshire) - Skies above areaType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 13 January 1792Further Comments: Several people reported seeing a forest in the sky, with soldiers in black uniforms moving around in formation. More soldiers wore white clothing, but appeared to be allied to the other troops, rather than in conflict.

Thatched Cottage

Location: Swindon (Wiltshire) - Ermine StreetType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1930sFurther Comments: A female cyclist caught in a storm took cover in a thatched cottage along this road, warming herself by an open fire with an old grey haired man for company. She later discovered that the cottage had been overgrown and dilapidated since the previous century.

Gothic House

Location: Tendring (Essex) - Exact area unknownType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: Winter 1974, around 19:00hFurther Comments: Two cyclists passing through the village on a winter's evening spotted a large gothic-style manor house where they knew a bungalow should have been. Speaking later to a local, they were told no house had ever stood on the site.

House with Glowing Windows

Location: Thirlmere (Cumbria) - Armboth Hall & Thirlmere lakeType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 31 October (reoccurring), Wedding party occursFurther Comments: After a murder of a newly wed bride, this house was left to fall into ruin - though some people reported that a glowing candle moves past various windows and a wedding party occurs. The Hall is now lost below the waters of the flooded valley of Thirlmere Lake, which is home to a phantom dog which swims through the water.

Changed Landscape

Location: Torbay (Devon) - Off Coast of Churston FerrersType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1938Further Comments: What could have been a mirage, someone reported that the landscape along the coast had totally changed. The witness almost fell over the edge of the cliff, mistaking the phantom landscape as real.

Shuck and Friends

Location: Tuamgraney (County Clare) - Wooded areaType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 31 October (reoccurring)Further Comments: This wooded hollow is particularly haunted around Halloween, when it is said to change into dense woodland with demonic creatures, including a red eyed dogs and rams.

Execution

Location: W2 (Greater London) - St George's Field, area near Marble ArchType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: 1979Further Comments: A witness living near here reported looking from a window to see dozens of people standing around the scene of an eighteenth century execution. The Bayswater Road area is also said to be haunted by strange shadowy figures which quickly disappear once seen.

Battle

Location: Wareham (Dorset) - Hills around Creech GrangeType: Environmental ManifestationDate / Time: December 1678Further Comments: Several thousand men were said to have been seen in the area, the sound of battle filling the air. The event is said to have been witnessed by around one hundred people.